{"id":5170,"date":"2011-03-20T16:28:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T16:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monochromist.com\/2011\/03\/20\/why-the-net-matters\/"},"modified":"2011-03-20T16:28:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T16:28:00","slug":"why-the-net-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2011\/03\/20\/why-the-net-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Why The Net Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/why-net-matters-how-internet\/id406319375?mt=8\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"116\" width=\"100\" alt=\"Net Matters\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.eagleman.com\/images\/stories\/netmatterslogo.png?resize=100%2C116\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Why The Net Matters: How the Internet Will Save Civilization<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>is a digital book\/iPad app that develops a new kind of way to navigate a non-fiction argument, to zoom in and out on 3D interactive figures, and to navigate with random-access chapters. This is not an iBook, but instead a new species of book. You can pick up Why The Net Matters on the\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/why-net-matters-how-internet\/id406319375?mt=8\">iTunes Store.<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&ldquo;Some of the most fascinating books around aren\u2019t books; they\u2019re\u00a0<em>superbooks\u00a0<\/em>\u2014 books with so much functionality that they\u2019re sold as apps. Consider David Eagleman\u2019s \u201cWhy the Net Matters,\u201d a book about the Internet with photos, animation and even 3D.&rdquo; &#8211; Virginia Heffernan,\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/01\/16\/magazine\/16FOB-medium-t.html?_r=1&amp;ref=magazine\"><em>New York Times Magazine<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li>&ldquo;This is an impressive and intriguing work&rdquo; &#8211; Leo Hollis,\u00a0<em>The Telegraph<\/em>\u00a0(UK)<\/li>\n<li>&ldquo;I read it in one sitting, engrossed&hellip;. This bold restatement of the political and social potential of the web was useful and intelligent in its simplicity.&rdquo; Chris Meade,<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bookfutures.blogspot.com\/2010\/12\/why-net-matters.html\">BookFutures<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>&ldquo;A very enjoyable app with Eagleman&rsquo;s ideas very accessible and engaging.&rdquo; &#8211; Sam Missingham,\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.futurebook.net\/content\/review-why-net-matters-ipad-app-david-eagleman\">FutureBook.net<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&ldquo;Why the Net Matters on the iPad is a breakthrough work, showing the way for generations of digital books to come.\u00a0 Text has never been so spectacularly illustrated; intellectual argument has never been so fluidly designed.\u00a0 And Eagleman&rsquo;s message is as revolutionary as his format: The Internet protects civilization from collapse without even trying.&quot;\u00a0 &#8211; Stewart Brand, President, The Long Now Foundation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Why the Net Matters<\/em>\u00a0was a finalist for the Digital Book World\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/eKDDlm\">Innovation Awards<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&rsquo;s the book about?<\/strong>\u00a0<em>Why the Net Matters\u00a0<\/em>argues that the advent of the internet sidesteps the dangers that brought down previous civilizations. \u00a0If you&rsquo;d like a taste of the content, here&rsquo;s a talk I delivered at the\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.longnow.org\/\">Long Now Foundation<\/a>\u00a0(For over a week this was the most watched video on\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/fora.tv\/2010\/04\/01\/Six_Easy_Steps_to_Avert_the_Collapse_of_Civilization\">fora.tv<\/a>, and was ranked the #8 technology talk of 2010)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>This thesis about the internet started life as a short piece I wrote in\u00a0<em>Nature<\/em>\u00a0in 2006 about the internet and epidemics,\u00a0and then fleshed out in a\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.edge.org\/q2010\/q10_8.html#eagleman\">short essay on Edge.org<\/a>\u00a0and later in WIRED UK.<\/p>\n<p>To participate in discussion about the ideas, please click on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eagleman.com\/netmatters\/discuss\">Discuss<\/a>\u00a0here on in the menu on the left.<\/p>\n<p>Here&rsquo;s a demonstration of the app in action:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Please click on the links on the left to read excerpts and see screenshots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why The Net Matters: How the Internet Will Save Civilization\u00a0is a digital book\/iPad app that develops a new kind of way to navigate a non-fiction argument, to zoom in and out on 3D interactive figures, and to navigate with random-access chapters. 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